MEGAN BERNER
Of Wind and Light Digital transfer on plexiglass 2017
Megan Berner
Megan Berner is a visual artist living and working in Reno, Nevada. She graduated with her MFA in Intermedia from the University of Iowa with a minor in drawing. Megan works with digital and experimental techniques such as instant film, digital transfers, and cyanotypes. Her work is greatly influenced by the landscape of her native Nevada home as well as the vast prairies of the Midwest, being a twin, mapping and exploration, and countless hours of daydreaming. She creates site-specific installations that incorporate video and sound and constructs performative scenes that ultimately exist as photographs. Other forms her artwork takes include artist's books, collaborative interactions, textile projects, and narrative videos.
Megan's work has been shown nationally and internationally and is part of multiple collections including the Center for Art and Environment at the Nevada Museum of Art, University of Arizona Art Museum, the University of Iowa Special Collections, and Southern Graphics Council International Archive.
Rabbitbrush Cyanotypology 2016, Archival print on Somerset Velvet, 17” x 22”
Cyanotypologies, 2016-present
Collections of things found in the desert—sagebrush, broken bottles, Mojave Redhead spines. Created from a grid of individual cyanotypes made in the desert.
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"Sagebrush Cyanotypology 1." Archival pigment print on Somerset Velvet. 17" x 22" unframed. Edition of 10
"Sagebrush Cyanotypology 2." Archival pigment print on Somerset Velvet. 17" 22" unframed. Edition of 10
"Rabbitbrush Cyanotypology." Archival pigment print on Somerset Velvet. 17" x 22" unframed. Edition of 10
"Cactus cyanotypology." Archival pigment print on Somerset Velvet. 17" x 22" unframed. Edition of 10
"Bottle cyanotypology." Archival pigment print on Somerset Velvet. 17" x 22" unframed. Edition of 10
Drift series
In the summer of 2015, Megan spent 2 weeks aboard a tall ship sailing around the archipelago of Svalbard as part of The Arctic Circle residency.
The surreal landscape and 24-hour light inspired her to create mirage-like photographs referencing the psychological experience of the otherworldly landscape. Using a Polaroid camera to create double exposures on instant film or digitally piecing together glaciers, she created transfers on plexiglass and paper.
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Of Wind and Light 2020. Monoprint, archival digital photographic transfer on acrylic 20" x 30"
"Of Ice and Light." 2020 Monoprint, archival digital photographic transfer on acrylic. 20" x 30"
Northern Light
Megan Berner and Victoria Buck both traveled to Svalbard, an archipelago in the Arctic, on a residency with the Arctic Circle in the summer of 2015. The residency consisted of two weeks aboard a tall sailing ship, The Antigua, with a group of 27 other artists, writers, and dancers exploring the area. This work in this exhibition is based on their time in the far North and experiences while in residency.
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"Northern Light" set
detail of "Northern Light" set
detail of "Northern Light" set
Mirage series
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Mirage #1 2016. Archival pigment print. 17" x 22" unframed
Mirage #3 2016. Archival pigment print. 17" x 22" unframed
Mirage #4 2016. Archival pigment print. 17" x 22" unframed
Mirage #5 2016. Archival pigment print. 17" x 22" unframed
Mirage #2 2016. Archival pigment print. 17" x 22" unframed
Megan Berner in the Black Rock Desert
Megan Berner Exhibitions
SOLO & TWO PERSON
2021-2022 Fading Light | Shifting Landscapes, Windows on First, Temporary Public Art Project, Las Vegas, NV
2021 Passing Time in the Desert, Melhop Gallery 7077, Zephyr Cove, NV
2020 Imagined Landscapes, Spanish Springs Library, Sparks, NV
2019 Fading Light | Shifting Landscapes, Nevada Fine Arts Gallery, Reno, NV
2017 Artist in Residence Exhibition , Friends of Black Rock High Rock, Reno Art Works, Reno, NV. Drift, The Holland Project Gallery, Reno, NV
Desert Notes, Sierra Arts Foundation, Reno, NV
Desert Notes, Left of Center Gallery, Las Vegas, NV
2016 Artist in Residence Exhibition , Friends of Black Rock High Rock, Gerlach, Winnemucca, NV
2014 Of This World, Not In It, Meinecke Gallery, St. Mary’s Art Center, Virginia City, NV
2014 Desert Garden, Reno Philharmonic Nevada Sesquicentennial Celebration, Pioneer Center, Reno, NV
2014 Surrender, St. Mary’s Art Center, Virginia City, NV
2013 The Aeolian Marsh , with Jared Stanley, as part of the Conference on Ecopoetics, UC Berkeley, Arrowhead Marsh, Oakland, CA
2012 Now & Never: The Torpedo Series, NeverEnder, Reno, NV
2011 In a Shifting Landscape, collaboration with Nat Evans, Chapel Performance Space, Seattle, WA
2010 The Explorers, collaboration with Melanie Berner, Bibo 3 Gallery, Reno, NV
2009 Umwelt, Silverland Art Gallery, Virginia City, NV
2008 The Art of Wallowing, Thiel College, Greenville, PA
2008 Woolworth Windows Exhibition, Tacoma Contemporary, Tacoma, WA
2008 Down To Earth, Arts Iowa City Gallery, Iowa City, IA
2007 The View From Here: an installation for one person, Eve Drewelowe Gallery, Iowa City, IA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2020 Art in Embassies, U.S. Department of State, Riyadh, SAUDI ARABIA
Ossuary, Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, Milwaukee, WI
2019 Bullfrog Biennial, Goldwell Open Air Museum, Beatty, NV
Psychogeografik, RAE Space for Contemporary Art, Berlin, GERMANY
Exploring the Twisted Nature of All Things, City Hall Gallery, Las Vegas, NV
Road Trip(ping), Fine Art Complex 1101, Tempe, AZ
2018 Resident Artists Exhibition, Studio 2035, Reno, NV
2017 Nasty Woman, Gallery 3, University of Arkansas, Little Rock, AR
Nasty Woman, Russell Fine Arts Gallery, Arkadelphia, AR
Tilting the Basin, 920 Commerce St., Las Vegas, NV
2016 Tilting the Basin, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV
41st Annual Faculty Show, Truckee Meadows Community College, Main Gallery, Reno, NV
Line in the Sand, Pacific Northwest College of Art Commons, SGCI, Portland, OR
Three to the Third: Whole Phantasmagoria Duality, Sierra Arts Foundation, invited by Tamara Scronce,
Reno, NV
2015 Grants to Artists Exhibition, Sierra Arts Foundation, Reno, NV
2014 Bathed in Sunshine, Covered in Dust , Holland Project Gallery, Reno, NV
Ossuary, Herron School of Art and Design, Indianapolis, IN
2013 Ossuary , University of Tennessee Downtown Gallery, Knoxville, TN
AZ Bill 1070 , A. E. England Gallery, Phoenix, AZ
BRIC Art 4 , Capital City Arts Initiative, Carson City, NV
Forage: A Roaming Gallery , Holland Project, Lost City Farm, Reno, NV
1-2-3, Collaborate! , print portfolio, as part of SGC, UWM PSOA Kenilworth Square East, Madison, WI
2012 For Your Eyes Only, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV
Prologue, Sheppard Gallery, Reno, NV
Modern Art Makes Me Want to Rock Out, Bibo 3 Gallery, Reno, NV
2011 Border Project: Soundscapes, Landscapes & Lifescapes, University of Arizona Museum, Tucson, AZ
Diminutive, small works group show, curated by Jen Graham, Bibo 3 Gallery, Reno, NV
MYSELF , Sheppard Gallery, Curated by Marji Vecchio, Reno, NV
Tompkins Projects West: Works on Paper, Dan Graham, Los Angeles, CA
2010 Culturing Community , The Moving Crew, The Faulconer Gallery, Grinnell, IA
Ideal X , The Moving Crew, Molekula, Rijeka, CROATIA
The Illustrated Accordion, Kalamazoo Book Arts Center, Kalamazoo, MI
Monochromatic , Holland Headquarters, Reno, NV
2009 Plus Three Ferris Wheels , Delavski dom (DDT), Trbovlje, SLOVENIA
Echotrope New Media Festival, Bancroft Street Market, Omaha, NE
Polymer, Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, TN
Plus Three Ferris Wheels, CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, NY
2008 Paths of Desire, Catich Gallery, St. Ambrose University, Davenport, IA
On Procession, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN
Bloom, MCLA Gallery 51, North Adams, MA
Plus 3 Ferris Wheels, Gwen Frostic School of Art, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI